The Brits started it last year with the off-kilter comedy “Shaun of the Dead.”

Zombiemeister George A. Romero imbued his shuffling dead with the ability to learn and — oh my god — think in his recent “Land of the Dead.”

Now we get zombie fish. What is the world coming to?

Sure, “Undead” contains the standard flesh-tearing, brain-sucking zombies of yore. Meteorites rip big holes through the inhabitants of a tiny fishing village dubbed Berkeley — make up your own joke — and they wake up dead and hungry.

When freshly caught fish get zapped, it brings out the piranha in them. No other animal or fowl does the zombie turnaround. It’s a shame because zombie chicken would be a great name for a new dance craze.

But I digress. The fish thing figures into the back story for Marion, a laconic, gun-toting, back-spinning, overalls-clad fisherman/survivalist played by Mungo McKay.

Considered a nut case by the town, Marion reluctantly provides shelter in his isolated farmhouse — an homage to the isolated house in Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” — for angst-ridden fish-festival queen Rene (Felicity Mason); her resentful, pregnant former rival and the rival’s pilot boyfriend (Lisa Cunningham and Rob Jenkins); and a clumsy rookie constable and her controlling boss (Emma Randall and Dirk Hunter).

Most of the film consists of their bickering as they attempt to avoid having their brains slurped and try to figure out what’s up with the meteorite weirdness.

Just when you think “Undead” will revert to same-o, same-o zombie fodder, filmmaking brothers Peter and Michael Spierig spring some delightfully unexpected twists.

Their low-budget picture resembles a host of Grade-B horror and sci-fi fare from the ’50s and ’60s, which adds to the fun. They shoot the body of their film in an eerie blue light that gives it a noir feel on top of everything else.

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